Suspicions blossom over Tom’s Mother’s Day gift
By Beth Teitell
Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Tom Cruise has struck again, this time with a Mother’s Day bouquet for his Manchurian fiancee that costs nearly $1,000.
To answer your first question: pink peonies in a Limoges vase.
To answer your second question: I have absolutely no idea why we even know this fact, although I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, since it’s become depressingly clear that Daddy Cruise has no intention of keeping his private life private.
Tom, if you’re reading this: Start a blog, dude, and those who are interested can check in on a daily basis. If I want to know how you had the card signed - ‘‘Dear Mommy, Happy first Mother’s Day. Lots of Love, Suri and Daddy,” I’ll visit your online diary. I don’t need to be ambushed with this info when I log onto MSNBC in search of other news.
As usual, Cruise’s actions horrify on several levels:
1) Why is he sending the message to working dads out there that you need to spend $1,000 on the mother of your child to show your appreciation? How about doing that by letting her give birth the way she wants?
2) As over-the-top as the $1,000 bouquet sounds, you’ve got to wonder why he isn’t spending more. Is he cheaping out on her now that she’s trapped by having a child with him? Even regular schmoes spend about $100 on Mom, and most of them aren’t earning $25 million (plus points) per picture.
3) And why is he getting her flowers at all, when the whole world knows Katie loves cupcakes? ‘‘Does he think she’s fat?” one TomKat scholar asked. ‘‘I mean she just had a baby for freakin’ sake! Let him have the baby and see how long it takes him to snap into shape. But no. He’s out in that black suit promoting his movie while she’s home, no doubt with some crazed La Leche instructor doing silent nursing to follow the whole silent birth thing.”
Sour grapes? Hardly. Most women don’t even want their guys blowing $1,000 on flowers. ‘‘All I’d be able to think about is how much we still owe the orthodontist,” one mom said.
‘‘If my husband did that I’d wonder what he did wrong,” another loving wife snapped. ‘‘I’d spend Mother’s Day going through his receipts and cellphone records.”
But the owner of Newbury Street’s 9 Months maternity store, Katie Tagliavia, says Tom’s Katie should appreciate her flowers - while she can. ‘‘By all Hollywood standards, they may be divorced next year, so she should enjoy it now!”